by The Anti-Therapist | Apr 14, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
There’s a phrase floating around right now like a trendy little lint ball stuck to everyone’s emotional sweater: “trauma dumping.” The general public throws it around to sound psychologically informed, therapists whisper it to each other as a warning sign, and somehow...
by The Anti-Therapist | Apr 1, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
The Script Written for Me From the very beginning, my story wasn’t mine. It was written for me… in whispers, in files, in charts, in diagnoses, in the heavy sighs of professionals who had already decided my fate before I even had the chance to imagine one for myself....
by The Anti-Therapist | Mar 13, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
When There Was Never a “Before Trauma” to Begin With Everywhere, people keep asking… “Who were you before they labeled you disordered?” “Who were you before trauma?” “Who were you before the world told you who you were?” For those of us who were born into harm…...
by The Anti-Therapist | Feb 1, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
Response to NYT article “What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses” I read the New York Times Magazine piece (listed at the end of this) on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and felt that familiar, hot, nauseous mix of recognition...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jan 15, 2026 | Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Theories, Therapy Harm
When “Trauma-Informed” Stops Being Relational Trauma models are meant to be maps, not mandates. They exist to support attunement, not to override it. Yet in contemporary trauma and dissociation care, certain frameworks… particularly phase-based models… are too...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jan 10, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Therapy Harm, Uncategorized
I am writing as both a clinician and a plural person with lived experience. What follows is not a reaction to a television show, a disagreement about humor, or a matter of personal taste. It is an ethical critique of how influence, authority, and narrative control...
